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01.04.2007 - Hitachi Shatters Capacity Record with World's First Terabyte Hard Drive



View HardDrive related news. CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 2007, LAS VEGAS - January 5, 2007 - Consumers' ability to store video, photos, music and other valued data will reach new heights as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced the industry's first terabyte (TB) hard drive. Delivering superior performance and reliability, as well as capacity, Hitachi's 1TB hard drive meets the needs of consumers who want to create, share and store their digital information, and lots of it. Hitachi's Deskstar® 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), or 40 cents per gigabyte (GB). This new consumer-friendly price makes ultra-high storage capacity more affordable and accessible than ever before..
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05.22.2006 - Seagate Technology Completes Acquisiton of Maxtor Corporation



View HardDrive related news. SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX - News) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Maxtor Corporation. The combined company retains the Seagate name and continues to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange as "STX." Maxtor common stock has ceased to trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
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05.17.2006 - Shareholders Approve Seagate Technology Acquisition of Maxtor



View HardDrive related news. Scotts Valley, CA and Milpitas, CA-- May 17, 2006- Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX), and Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today that Seagate shareholders and Maxtor stockholders have approved the previously announced definitive merger agreement under which Seagate will acquire Maxtor in an all stock transaction.
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05.16.2006 - User-Generated Content Is Called "Priceless," Yet Many Don't Back Up Data, A Maxtor Survey Reveals



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., May 16, 2006 - We live in a world of increasingly ubiquitous digital content, and we enjoy and share it via a broad number of in-home and portable devices. Often this content is self-generated or created by our friends and family, including personal photos and other media files that are irreplaceable. Yet nearly half of adult U.S. computer users who have digital content stored on their computer run the risk of losing their digital files forever because they don't back them up to external devices or media, according to a new U.S. adult consumer survey? of computer users, sponsored by Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), the consumer storage innovator.
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05.15.2006 - Maxtor Honored By PC Magazine For Best Storage Solution This Year



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., May 15, 2006 - Storage innovator Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today that its one-terabyte (1,000GB) Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition external storage and backup solution has been chosen as one of the 26 best products so far this year by PC Magazine. "These 26 products represent the cream of the crop: All have been given an editor rating of 4.5 or higher (five being the highest), as well as PC Magazine's highest honor, the Editor's Choice award," writes Vicki B. Jacobson, website executive editor for PC Magazine, one of the world's leading personal technology publications.
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05.02.2006 - Maxtor Launches Consumer Product Portal



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., May 2, 2006 - In line with a long history of success in meeting the needs of consumers through simple, elegant and intuitive solutions, storage innovator Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today that it has launched a new website to embrace consumers and their growing needs for reliable storage solutions. The site, www.maxtorsolutions.com, aims to make external storage and backup options simple, straightforward and understandable for users.
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04.26.2006 - Maxtor Reports First Quarter Financial Results



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, CA, April 26, 2006 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended April 1, 2006. Revenue for the first quarter was $881.0 million. The Company reported a net loss of $102.1 million, or $(0.40) per share. Revenue in the first quarter of 2005 totaled $1,069.6 million. The Company reported a net loss of $20.2 million, or $(0.08) per share, for the first quarter of 2005.
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04.25.2006 - Maxtor and AMCC Team To Promote Enterprise SATA Storage



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., April 25, 2006 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) (Nasdaq:AMCC) today announced they have joined forces to promote the use of Serial ATA (SATA) storage in enterprise applications. The two companies have collaborated on testing and product validation on the Maxtor® MaXLine® enterprise SATA drive and AMCC's 3ware® 9550SX PCI-X to SATA II RAID controller, thereby offering design simplicity and ease of integration with these products.
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04.21.2006 - Maxtor and AIC Demo the Benefits of Serial Attached SCSI For the Video Market at NAB2006



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., April 21, 2006 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today its Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives will be featured in a demonstration at the AIC booth (#SL5206) at NAB2006, April 22 - 27, 2006 in Las Vegas. AIC is an industry leading designer and manufacturer of rack-mount server and data storage enclosure solutions. The demonstration will highlight AIC's 3U 16-bay 3.5-inch RMC3E-SA server populated with 12 Maxtor® Atlas® 15K II SAS drives.
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04.17.2006 - Maxtor Introduces Sleek, Trusted Storage To Go



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., April 17, 2006 - To meet fast-growing market demand for portable storage, Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) today announced it is shipping the new Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition drive, the company's first small form factor external storage solution. Designed with the mobile professional in mind, the slim, elegant and portable solution is the latest addition to the award-winning Maxtor OneTouch product family. Weighing in at approximately seven ounces, it is the first mobile storage solution in the industry that comes fully loaded with the latest software innovations to protect and manage digital content, including automated backup, data encryption, data synchronization and system rollback to restore applications and operating system while keeping digital files current.
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04.11.2006 - Maxtor OneTouch™ III Turbo Edition Has It All



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., April 11, 2006 - "Direct-attached external storage just doesn't get any better than Maxtor's OneTouch III, Turbo Edition," writes Jon L. Jacobi and Felisa Yang in a recent CNET Editors' Choice review. The coveted CNET Editors' Choice award recognizes outstanding personal technology and consumer electronic products that represent the best available choice for quality, performance, design, and service, and its logo is a mark of excellence denoting the best possible investment for technology buyers.
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04.10.2006 - Maxtor Presents the Future Of Storage Innovation



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., April 10, 2006 - The way people access, share, view and experience digital content is quickly evolving, and storage pioneer Maxtor (NYSE: MXO) is introducing several new products to address these changing consumer needs. Mike Williams, vice president and general manager, Maxtor Branded Products, today presented the future of storage innovation, and outlined a series of new products that Maxtor will make available through its retail and distributor channels during the second quarter.
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04.04.2006 - Maxtor Corporation Provides Update On The First Quarter 2006 Financial Outlook



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., April 4, 2006 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) today provided an update to its financial guidance for the first quarter ended April 1, 2006. While industry conditions during the first quarter were within typical seasonal expectations, Maxtor faced challenges related to its pending acquisition by Seagate Technology.
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04.03.2006 - Maxtor and LSI Logic Continue To Advance SAS and SATA Raid Storage



View HardDrive related news. STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD - SAN DIEGO, April 3, 2006 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) continues to work with LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) to drive Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) adoption in the channel and advance SAS and Serial ATA (SATA) RAID storage development. The SAS leaders recently completed compatibility testing to provide channel customers with tested and proven SAS and SATA components to develop storage solutions.
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04.03.2006 - Maxtor Showcases Next-Generation Products at NCTA 2006



View HardDrive related news. April 3, 2006 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) - Visit the Maxtor Meeting and Demo Suite at NCTA to see how the latest consumer storage technology is being used to enhance the digital living room experience.
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03.29.2006 - Maxtor Demos The "Infinite Possibilities" Of Serial Attached SCSI Technology At Storage Networking World



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., March 29, 2006 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) will be participating in the Storage Networking World Conference, April 3-6, 2006 in San Diego, Calif. at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. Maxtor's booth will showcase the flexibility, performance and scalability of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) technologies. Maxtor will also be speaking at a session on SAS architecture during the conference.
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03.27.2006 - Maxtor OneTouch Leads Retail In the United States



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., March 27, 2006 - Storage innovator Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today that its Maxtor OneTouch™ family of products remains the leading brand of external storage sold in the United States, based on the latest data from The NPD Group, a leading consumer and retail information company. Based on the data, Maxtor ranked as the number one brand sold in the United States with 27.4 percent of all direct-attached storage purchases from consumers and small businesses via the retail and online channels that The NPD Group's data monitored during 2005, a slight increase in Maxtor's 27.2 percent market share, which led the external storage category in 2004.
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03.21.2006 - Maxtor Receives Editors' Choice Award For Protecting Digital Content



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif., March 21, 2006 - Storage innovator Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today that its one-terabyte Maxtor OneTouch III, Turbo Edition external storage and backup solution with user-configurable RAID has won an Editors' Choice Award from PC Magazine, one of the world's leading personal technology publications. Honored for the third time, the company's innovative storage solutions continue Maxtor's legacy of providing simple, elegant and intuitive ways for consumers to automatically back up and protect their valuable content.
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03.20.2006 - Maxtor Corporation Named Five-Star Vendor by CMP's VarBusiness Magazine



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, CA, March 20, 2006 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and consumer storage products, has been recognized by CMP Media's VARBusiness Magazine as one of North America's top information-technology (IT) vendors for partnership programs it offers to solution providers that sell its products and services to end users. Maxtor was certified as a Five-Star Partner, acknowledging its commitment and the strength of its programs for IT integrators, resellers and consultants.
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03.13.2006 - Maxtor Wins Tom's Hardware Guide 2005 Readers' Choice Award



View HardDrive related news. MILPITAS, Calif. - March 13, 2006 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today that its Maxtor Shared Storage network storage solution has been honored with Tom's Hardware Guide 2005 Readers' Choice Award for best network attached storage (NAS) product. Selected from hundreds of products, the 2005 award winners span ten categories and reflect a highly influential audience comprised of IT professionals, C-level executives and tech-savvy consumers. According to the publication, about 81 percent of its audience specify, recommend or approve purchases at some level within their organizations.
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